This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...I have to thank you for sending me a copy of your speech; and as, by the course you have taken, you have offended some of your constituents, I may take this opportunity of saying that my opinion on this subject concurs with yours.1 We are more likely to obtain freedom for the Church when Parliament is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...I have to thank you for sending me a copy of your speech; and as, by the course you have taken, you have offended some of your constituents, I may take this opportunity of saying that my opinion on this subject concurs with yours.1 We are more likely to obtain freedom for the Church when Parliament is professedly what it is now virtually, than we are under the existing state of things. When Parliament ceases to be a Christian Parliament, even in name, it will probably see the propriety of not attempting to legislate for the Christian Church. 1 On the admission of Jews to Parliament To W. P. Wood, Esq.--Alterations in the Prayer BookAppointments to bishoprics. Vicarage, Leeds: February 11, 1848. I should be hopeless of any measure in which Mr. Horsman and his friends take part Their object is to drive us from the Church, admitting now that it is only by understanding the Prayer Book in a non-natural sense that they can remain in it. I understand that the ' Record' has been labouring very hard of late in attacking the Prayer Book doctrine of regeneration, evidently with a view to alteration. And this shows the ignorance of what we think the Christian religion--sacramental religion. We hold that the Divine object is the reunion of the fallen creature with the Creator. For this purpose God has become man without ceasing to be God--the God-man--the Mediator as such. He has, as God-man, formed a Body of which He is the Head; the mystical Body, the Church, is the medium through which individuals are united to the Head and afterwards preserved in that union, faith and repentance being required on their part. The sacraments are the means of uniting us to, and preserving us in union with, the Body, and through the Body with the Head, and therefore they are...
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Add this copy of The Life and Letters of Walter Farquhar Hook, Volume 2 to cart. $63.33, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
